Court Jails Biker For Trafficking In Hard Drugs
A 25-year-old man biker, Usman Musa, has been convicted and sentenced to 21 months imprisonment for trafficking in prohibited substances, by a Federal High Court, Lagos.
Usman was convicted and sentenced by the presiding judge, Justice Friday Ogazi, after he pleaded guilty to three counts charge made against him by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), today.
The convict according to the prosecutor, Barry Juliana Negedu, was arrested while peddling the prohibited drugs at Ajegunle-Apapa area of Lagos State.
Negedu told the court the convict was apprehended on February 20, 2026, for being in unlawful possession of 618 grammes of Cannabis Sativa, 55 grammes of Rohypnol, a psychotropic and 46 grammes of Tramadol (225mg), another controlled narcotic substance with similar classification.
The prosecutor also informed the court that the convict used an unregistered high grade motorcycle with Chassis no: Sj25pb104233, to peddle the illicit substances
Following the guilty plea of the convict to the three counts charge, the prosecutor urged the court to sentence him based on his guilty plea, confessional statement and the exhibits tendered.
She also prayed the court to finally forfeit the motorcycle used as an Instrumentality of the illicit acts to the federal government of Nigeria.
However, the convict’s lawyer, Barrister Kate Igbo, in her allocutor prayed the court to tamper justice with mercy in sentencing her clients.
The lawyer also pleaded with the court to give her client a non-custodian sentence or a fine option in lieu of the jail-term.
In his judgment, Justice Ogazi after citing plethora of authorities and after reading the convict’s confessional statement where he stated that ‘he was previously arrested by the police on two occasions for trading in the illicit substances’, sentenced him to seven months imprisonment on each of the counts.
The judge however held that the jail-term should run concurrently. While also ordered final forfeiture of the unregistered high grade motorcycle with Chassis no Sj25pb104233, to the federal government of Nigeria.
